United Notifying Passengers on Ebola Patient Duncan's Flights

United Airlines, which flew Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan on two of the three flights that brought him to the U.S. last month, is trying to notify as many as 400 people who may have been on Duncan's flights, referring them to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the airline told NBC News on Thursday. United said it doesn't believe any fellows passengers are at risk but that it was taking the move out of an abundance of caution.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/united-notifying-passengers-ebola-patient-duncans-flights-n217056

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Where is the CDC? Where is Homeland Security?

They should have dispatched advisors and containment/clean-up teams by now. Just saw on CNN TV from the brother of the infected fellow that the bed linen is still in the apartment.

GAWD!! Murphy is really running amok on this one.

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Bureaucrats must have their pound of flesh...

Liberia to prosecute Mr Duncan

The ignorace or arrogance Mr Duncan displayed is appalling. If he lives the Liberian govt. is quite correct.

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Was this Mr. Duncan a highly paid person in Liberia? Even when I was working I couldn't afford to buy an international plane ticket on just a few days notice. He had to have known that after trying to help that woman who later died that he was most likely infected.

I wonder how many other people that had been exposed to someone contagious have fled the country to parts unknown. How many more times will this scenario play out before all transportation out of regions stricken with this disease is halted?

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Another one :(

NBC News Freelancer in Africa Diagnosed with Ebola

An American freelance cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola and will be flown back to the United States for treatment.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/nbc-news-freelancer-africa-diagnosed-ebola-n217271

and this..

Family members of Dallas Ebola patient confined to home under armed guard

Four members of a family the U.S. Ebola patient was staying with were confined to their Texas home under armed guard Thursday as the circle of people possibly exposed to the virus widened, while Liberian authorities said they would prosecute the man for allegedly lying on an airport questionnaire.

The unusual confinement order was imposed after the family failed to comply with a request not to leave their apartment, according to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20141002-family-members-of-dallas-ebola-patient-confined-to-home-under-armed-guard.ece

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Am I the only one who is having flashbacks to what was first said about AIDS and with the same attitude?

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Those people don't understand or don't care.

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Am I the only one who is having flashbacks to what was first said about AIDS and with the same attitude?

This could be bigger than AIDS. I doubt it but 70% reduction in the worlds population is possible, think global warming. It almost seems like the planet is fighting back.

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Spittle.

I've seen Spittle come out of my mouth and others, and travel at least 6 feet.

Spittle from Another Person has caught me in My Mouth, Lips, Nose, and Eyes.

A Person could Easily be 'Hit' with Spittle, and Not Know 'it'.

With The Spittle 'is' The...

Spittle A Bodily Fluid?

Spittle Scares Me.

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!

To me ebola is much worse than AIDS ever was. It spreads fast and kills quickly. In more than 20 years of research there is no vaccine nor cure. They don't even have a readily available way to test for ebola before symptoms appear.

Spittle would be my greatest concern if I had been anywhere near a person with ebola.

Many would have expected the CDC to over react when the virus hitched a ride to north america but instead they seem to still be in a reactionary mode waiting to see if anyone in the vicinity of Mr. Duncan over the last two weeks develops symptoms. I truly hope they are right when they say the disease can't spread before the victim displays symptoms.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

To me ebola is much worse than AIDS ever was. It spreads fast and kills quicklyI truly hope they are right when they say the disease can't spread before the victim displays symptoms.

Since the first case was in 1976, 38 years ago, I think they have had time to understand the transmission methods.

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Health Officials Say Up To 100 People May Have Had Some Kind Of Contact With Texas Ebola Patient

DALLAS, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Up to 100 people may have had direct or indirect contact with the first person to be diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus in the United States, and four of his relatives have been quarantined in their homes as a precaution, health officials said Thursday.

Dallas County officials said 12 to 18 people had direct contact with the Texas patient, and they in turn had contact with scores of others.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/02/texas-ebola_n_5919522.html

One of the relatives went to buy a blanket at Walmart???

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Spittle.

I've seen Spittle come out of my mouth and others, and travel at least 6 feet.

Spittle from Another Person has caught me in My Mouth, Lips, Nose, and Eyes.

A Person could Easily be 'Hit' with Spittle, and Not Know 'it'.

With The Spittle 'is' The...

Spittle A Bodily Fluid?

Spittle Scares Me.

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I brought up coughing and sneezing a lot of posts ^.
Its liquid folks that sprays out of your mouth and nose. Whos to say Ebola cant spread that way?
And has anyone thought that some jihadists might get the idea to self inlict themsleves with Ebola and just fly to the US or any other western country?

I am very concerned. You do see how fast that entervirus hss spread.

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Old James

Wake Up call

Scary...

...some very valid points raised in that report.

"It's badly needed. There are only 327 beds for Ebola patients in a country where 765 new cases of Ebola were reported just last week. The authorities in Sierra Leone are well aware of the urgency with which new facilities must be provided. This centre was built in just two months.

"There are not enough treatment centres," Mark says. "With lots more beds, we can stop this disease progressing, but the longer we leave it, the worse it will get."

"It's really good that the British government has got behind efforts to combat Ebola in Sierra Leone, and the US too in Liberia," he says, "but we need other governments to help out. It's gone beyond money, we need the big players to come in and stand alongside us on the ground.

"We are at a junction. If we don't act now it will spiral out of control.""

Not to worry. President Obola will protect us.

Not to worry. President Obola will protect us.

Only if it threatens to cut into his voter base.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Bureaucrats must have their pound of flesh...

Liberia to prosecute Mr Duncan

I thought that people were checked medically for symptoms. A questionnaire?

*facepalms*

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Doctor dons Ebola protection suit to protest ‘asleep at the wheel’ CDC

By Mike Morris and John Spink

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Two days after a man in Texas was diagnosed with Ebola, a Missouri doctor Thursday morning showed up at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport dressed in protective gear to protest what he called mismanagement of the crisis by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Gil Mobley checked in and cleared airport security wearing a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a hooded white jumpsuit emblazoned on the back with the words, “CDC is lying!”

“If they’re not lying, they are grossly incompetent,” said Mobley, a microbiologist and emergency trauma physician from Springfield, Mo.

Mobley said the CDC is “sugar-coating” the risk of the virus spreading in the United States.

Efforts to reach a CDC spokesperson for comments on Mobley’s criticism have been unsuccessful.
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CDC chief on Ebola: We can’t shut the border

By JONATHAN TOPAZ | 10/3/14 7:03 AM EDT

Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Friday said restricting travel between the U.S. and West Africa would likely “backfire” and put Americans more at risk of contracting Ebola.
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Doomsday warning: UN Ebola chief raises 'nightmare' prospect that virus could mutate and become airborne - making it much more infectious

By Corey Charlton and Lucy Crossley for MailOnline

Published: 08:25 EST, 2 October 2014 | Updated: 14:49 EST, 2 October 2014

The longer the Ebola epidemic continues infecting people unabated, the higher the chances it will mutate and become airborne, the UN's Ebola response chief has warned.

Anthony Banbury, the Secretary General's Special Representative, has said there is a 'nightmare' prospect the deadly disease will become airborne if it continues infecting new hosts.

Lets see...

Doctor says CDC is either lying or incompetent.

CDC refuses to restrict travel from West Africa to the USA.

UN says Ebola has an increasing chance of 'going airborne'.

Not to worry. President Obola will protect us.

Only if it threatens to cut into his voter base.

Obama has different Priority's.

I agree with CLYDE. Something is going on here, and it doesn't smell right.

Yes, it is IMPORTANT to stop Ebola in West Africa. BUT, just how the FARK are we going to be able to help them, if our medical infrastructure is overwhelmed with cases HERE?

Five blunders US made in treating country's first Ebola patient

A good summary of the situtation, in my opinion.

To summarize (and avoid a 'Great Wall of Text' quote):

1. Only filling out a form was necessary to leave Liberia for the USA.
2. The hospital in Texas screwed up on his first visit on Sept. 25.
3. His ambulance ride back to the hospital on Sept. 28 was screwed up. Also cleanup of the apartment and surrounding area was bungled.
4. The quarantine of those exposed was delayed and mishandled.
5. Area schools were not closed.

I recommend reading the article.

In my opinion, blame for this is pretty much shared equally by the US Federal Government, the Texas State Government, the Dallas County Government, and the Dallas City Government. If this is the best we can do, especially after all the preparedness meetings of about 1 week before this (in other words about the time the guy was getting infected in Liberia), things look... grim. If this case doesn't mushroom out of control, the next probably will.

Slightly, but not totally off-topic:

Oh, for those that might not be aware, the 'Dallas Judge' Clay Jenkins quoted in the article is not a judicial judge. He is the 'Dallas County Judge', meaning he is the head of the legislative County Government in Dallas County.

The 'County Judge' in Texas is the elected head of the 'County Commissioners Court'... the County's Legislative body. The 'County Judge' is elected at large by the voters in that county, and the 'County Commissioners' are elected in the County by district.

Nice summary, it's not giving a good impression on how well the situation is being dealt with.

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